Stuart Dischell dischell@uncg.edu Shawn Delgado, Teaching Intern smdelgad@uncg.edu Spanning nearly the entire history of writing in English, this course will focus on the form of the enduring lyric poem—its evolution, development, and variations. We will take a close look at over one hundred examples from Caedmon’s “Hymn” to James Wright’s “A Blessing.” Along the way we may give extended concentration to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Hughes--as well as numerous other ridiculously well-known poets, such as Wyatt, Herrick, Ginsberg, and Plath. If you don’t have a solid background in poetry, you certainly will have one after this course. Requirements: One memorization assignment, two short essays, two examinations. Class attendance: you must not miss more than two classes or your grade may be reduced. All essay assignments must be submitted in hard copy, double-spaced on one side of the paper. We will take a direct approach to the poems and discuss the ways in which poems are made and how they mean. Classes will be conducted in a lecture/discussion format. The student should come to class having read and read aloud several times the poems under consideration. Each poem should provoke the student into preparing questions and comments for classroom consideration. Text: The Norton Anthology of Poetry, fifth edition, Ferguson, et al, editors READING LIST “Caedmon’s Hymn” “Riddles” “Now Go’th Sun Under Wood” “The Cuckoo Song” “Ubi Sun Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt?” “Alison” Lines from the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (first 34) “To Rosamond” “The Smiling Mouth” “I have a Young Sister” “Western Wind” “The Silver Swan” “As You Came From the Holy Land of Walsingham” “Whoso List to Hunt” “They Flee from Me” “[Ah silly pugg...} “A Communication Which the Author Had to London...” “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Sonnets: 12, 18, 29, 30, 65, 73, 116, 130, 138 “Women’s Constancy” “Still to Be Neat” “Delight in Disorder” Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Chaucer Chaucer D’Orleans Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Wyatt Wyatt Queen Elizabeth Whitney Ralegh Marlowe Shakespeare Donne Jonson Herrick “To the Virgins” “Love III” “Song” “To His Coy Mistress” From “Jubilate Agno” “Written Near a Churchyard..” “A Poison Tree” “The Garden of Love” “London” “Sunflower” “To a Mouse” “Lines (Tintern Abbey)” “Resolution and Independence” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud “My Heart Leaps Up” “Frost at Midnight” “Ozymandias” “Ode to a Nightingale” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Sonnet 43" Selections from “Song of Myself” (1,6,11,24,52) “Dover Beach” Poems 258, 280,303, 341, 465, 712 “In an Artist’s Studio” “Spring and Fall” “Inversnaid” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” “When You Are Old” “Adam’s Curse” “The Second Coming” “Sailing to Byzantium” “We Wear the Mask” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “The River Merchant’s Wife, A Letter” “In A Station of the Metro” “The Garret” “The Garden” “The Young Housewife” “Danse Russe” “This Is Just To Say” “The Red Wheelbarrow” “The Steeple-Jack” “The Anecdote of the Jar” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” “The Man with the Blue Guitar” “September 1, 1939” Herrick Herbert Suckling Marvell Smart Smith Blake Blake Blake Blake Burns Wordsworth Wordsworth Wordsworth Wordsworth Coleridge Shelley Keats Keats Browning Whitman Arnold Dickinson Rossetti Hopkins Hopkins Yeats Yeats Yeats Yeats Yeats Dunbar Eliot Pound Pound Pound Pound Williams Williams Williams Williams Moore Stevens Stevens Stevens Auden “The Negro Speaks of Rivers “ “Theme for English B” “The Weary Blues” “Kitchenette Building” “We Real Cool” “The Force That Through the Green Fuse…” “Howl” “Marriage” “The Day Lady Died” “For the Union Dead” “Epilogue” “My Papa’s Waltz” “In the Waiting Room” “One Art” “Daddy” “Lady Lazarus” “Dream Song 14 “Those Winter Sundays” “The Idea of Ancestry” “Ilu, the Talking Drum” “O Taste and See” “A Blessing” . Hughes Hughes Hughes Brooks Brooks Thomas Ginsberg Corso O’Hara Lowell Lowell Roethke Bishop Bishop Plath Plath Berryman Hayden Knight Knight Levertov Wright